CHAPTER XXXVI

The second night.

Jialan sank to the bottom of the hot spring with her legs in her hands, her closed eyes moved, but she didn't wake up.

In the Tianquan Stream, there are many mandrills climbing on the cliffs in all directions, such as ants on the trees moving quickly and agilely. There is no flat ground on the steep cliff face that can accommodate a mandrill to settle into, only many rocks and grooves of various sizes. And it is through these natural "footholds" that mandrills climb freely back and forth. They waved the poison bag in their hands, and the blue-purple gas continued to seep out of the poison bag, and the strange cry of "quack" echoed in the valley.

The poisonous fog was filled, and the mandrills jumped to the cobblestone ground in a few jumps, and carried a few stunned servants back to the cliff wall to climb up, and then lifted the servants and threw them down the cliff.

With a "boom", the insect was suddenly awakened, he opened his eyes suddenly, and a mandrill was carrying him and preparing to throw it down. He reacted, and quickly pulled out the bamboo hairpin on his hand and stabbed it hard at the mandrill's waist.

When the mandrill found that the insect woke up, he reacted quickly and hurriedly threw him out, a tingling pain in his waist, the mandrill howled loudly, and the strength in his hand was also removed a lot.

The insect took the opportunity to grab the mandrill's arm, and pulled the mandrill down on the way down, and he jumped upward with his strength to grasp the vine on the edge of the cliff steadily. The Celestial Worm lowered his head and looked down through the poisonous mist, under which the mandrill was lying on its back on the ground twitching and gasping, staring at him with big eyes, gradually oozing red blood.

The Celestial Worm raised his brow and withdrew his gaze, and looked around to find no other companions and mountain gods, his heart was anxious, and his face was slightly red from nervousness. The insect frowned, the poisonous gas inhaled in his body attacked, and he gritted his teeth and cold sweat fell from his forehead. After the palpitations passed, the heavenly worm hurriedly took out a pill from his sleeve and swallowed it, and then quickly slid down the vine.

Today, as usual, they followed the mountain god to the Tianquanjian hot spring pool to serve the mountain god to bathe. At first, nothing was unusual, until the mountain god descended from the hot springs, and then gradually disappeared into a mist.

Beizi waited by the pool with toiletries, and did not see the mountain god surface for a long time, only then did he notice something strange and hurriedly called the mountain god, but he never got an answer. Seeing this situation, the Celestial Worm immediately ordered Shi Nan to summon the patriarch, and he went down to the hot spring to look for the mountain god, but the moment the Celestial Worm came ashore to breathe, he lost consciousness, and this was the case when he woke up again.

The insect hurriedly rushed back to the hot spring pool, and on the way saw two servants who were thrown off the cliff by the mandrill, he stepped forward to check, it was Beizi and Wen Yuan, Beizi was dead, and Wen Yuan still had a trace of breath.

The Heavenly Worm fed Wen Yuan an elixir and dragged him behind a rock to hide, while he continued to rush to the hot spring pool.

At this moment, he has no time to care about whether Ziling Chuanlian and Shi Nan are alive or dead, and whether the outside has been occupied by mandrills, it is the most important thing for him to find the mountain god first.

The heavenly insect subconsciously touched the sub-vein in his sleeve, and only after knowing that it was still safe did he speed up and run hard. He didn't know how much time had passed since Jialan went into the water, Jialan had always been non-aggressive, and if he stayed in the water for a long time after losing consciousness, the spirit in the water would not care if Jialan was a mountain god or not.

The insects gritted their teeth, if the mountain god had anything to do...... Jialan's sleeping face came to mind, and his heart pounded.

Jiajun!

Jialan opened her eyes, and what caught her eyes was an ugly face with green skin. She was still underwater, frightened by the ugly face, and in a panic, she waved her arms and hurriedly pushed the face away. It wasn't until she stepped back a little that she saw that it was a mandrill.

Not far from her, many mandrills had their arms attached, holding the hands of their companions from the shore of the hot spring to her eyes. Their dark fur swayed softly in the water, and their closed eyes were as harmonious and peaceful as if they were asleep.

Except for the mandrill closest to her, it swam towards her with its eyes open, its right hand clasped with its companion never letting go. There was a splash on the shore, and two more mandrills were involved in the hands of their end companions.

What is this going to do? Shanxiao, this is not even letting go of the mountain god?" Jialan thought, and hurriedly took a few steps back and went upstream.

Seeming unwilling to let Jialan go, Mandrill pulled his companion's hand and kicked it on his companion's shoulder and rushed upward.

Jialan felt a tightness on her feet, and her breathing stagnation almost drained the air in her abdomen. She looked down and saw that the leading mandrill had taken her ankle and climbed up her foot.

The underwater light was dim, and the slightly hot water made her feel a slight tingling pain in her back, but for now she could only ignore it and start to solve the trouble in front of her.

Jialan didn't shake the mandrills away, I don't know if it was her delusion, she seemed to see those mandrills shedding their hair?

This is...... Cooked?

...... No way.

Jialan stretched out her hand to wave away the dark hair that was floating in front of her and gradually rising, she didn't know what it meant, what did she want to do when she deliberately shed her hair in front of her?

From the eyes of those mandrills, Jia Lan could tell that they didn't want to hurt her. The mandrill had rowed in front of her, looking at her with a slightly curious gaze.

It suddenly reached out its hand, revealing a handful of hairs on its palm.

Jialan looked up at it, then at the handful of hairs, then at him again, and asked it with her eyes: What is this?

Mandrill's hand was handed forward.

Is this for her? Jialan hurriedly waved her hand, indicating that she didn't want its hair.

Jialan was speechless, not understanding why it was showing her its fur. She shook her head, indicating that she didn't understand what it was about.

The handful of hairs slowly rose in the water and slowly began to fade. Jialan looked up at the mandrill in surprise, only to find that its face was also fading.

The mandrill fur, which had faded from dark to white, flew upwards like a flickering white light around them, and finally dissipated before they reached the surface, as if dissolved by the hot spring water.

Jialan watched as the mandrill in front of him changed from an ugly appearance with green skin and a red mouth and fangs to a tall, handsome young man with long white hair...... Mountain ghosts?

Forgive Jialan for seeing the appearance of the mandrill more and more at her behold, why did the mandrill become like this? It's just that his skin is different from the fine white of the mountain ghost, it is a honey color like sunlight, and it shows a unique charm on the well-textured body.

If you compare a mountain ghost to water, then the mandrill is fire, and if you compare a mountain ghost to a tree, then the mandrill is a stone.

In previous years, the mandrill had a very bad impression on her, rude, arrogant and obedient, always disturbing the peace of the mountain ghosts. She thought they were going to do it to her today, but apparently they had something to say to her.

It's just that......

She wasn't sure if she could understand the meaning of their different tones of "quack", and if she didn't know if they could understand her answer, should she need to answer with "quack" as well?

Just as Jialan frowned and felt very entangled, Shanxiao stretched out his hands, and a string of white words appeared above his palm. The mandrill's palms are very wide, and the fingers are slender and beautiful, which is different from the slender and graceful of the mountain ghost, which is a kind of beauty full of aggression, domineering but gentle.

[My god Jialan. 】

Jialan was shocked, they really had something to say.

Shan Xiao looked at Jialan's reaction, and found that Jialan's expression was serious, and she looked like she was listening to him seriously, and her heart became serious.

[My name is Huai Demon, a member of the Mandrill tribe. 】

They have not believed in it for a long time, and their feelings for the mountain god have faded quickly, so they are not afraid to call themselves "I" in front of the mountain god.

Jialan nodded, she knew that the people of Tongshan Mountain could not call themselves "I" or "I" in front of her, but she also knew the situation of the Shanxiao Clan, so she didn't care about the disrespect in Huai Demon's words.

The dark hair on Huai Demon's body has not faded, and the changes on his body have only been halfway, so at this moment, his upper body is the appearance of a normal adult man, and the waist down is still the appearance of an animal when he was an ugly mandrill.

Although this is a little ridiculous, but Jialan can't laugh at all, maybe she also felt the tragedy in Huai Demon's heart, he came, he must not have thought of leaving alive, they came, just to say a few words to her.

[After 100,000 spring and autumn seasons, the Mandrill clan has now come to an end. Although the people of the clan have fallen into demons, they are not completely unconscious. There are only a hundred remaining people in our clan now, and most of the people have died in vain with the mountain ghosts, so the sins of the mandrill clan can no longer be counted. The wish of the deceased patriarch of our clan has dissipated like a shadow. The Huai Demon and the other people did not want to see the mandrill walking towards the abyss, so they came to ask our god to save them. 】

Jialan opened her mouth, and a series of bubbles came out of her mouth. She frowned slightly, closed her mouth and balanced herself in the water.

She stretched out her right hand, [How did you enter the Mountain Ghost Domain?]

[Now that many spiritual springs have been restored, mandrills can no longer enter as they please. Today, you went to great lengths to come to Tianquan Stream just to ask me for help?]

[Yes, only the mountain god can save us.] 】

[You should know, I am still underage, how can I help you?]

Huai Demon lowered his eyes, and his white eyelashes covered his amber eyes. His expression was rather sad, as if he had been relieved of his anger all at once, and his expression was gloomy.

He looked back at his companions, who, like him, were gradually revealing themselves in the water. They were slowly rising and falling in the water as if they were asleep, and he knew that they were dead, and that he was about to be swallowed up by the spring of heaven like them, all this which they had expected before they came, and they did not regret it.

Tianquan Stream originally belonged to the Mandrill Domain, and was once the bathing place of the mountain god and the patriarch of the two clans. Tianquan originally belonged to the spiritual spring, and now the most unbearable thing for their bodies is the pure aura, and it is undoubtedly a suicide for them to soak in the hot spring water like this.

[They have already arrived in the Mountain Ghost Domain, and we followed them to Tianquan just to prevent them from breaking the rules as much as possible and making our clan unpeaceful. It is the duty of the mountain god to maintain order in the mountains, and the gods should not want the two clans of the mandrill and the mountain ghosts to go to war. Now we can't control their behavior, so we can only go into the water to warn God. 】

[Then how do you say I can save you to exit the Mountain Ghost Domain?] Jialan asked tentatively.

The Mandrill Clan is now like a broken jar, and since it is doomed to extinction, it wants to pull the Mountain Ghost Clan into the water.

[You only need to unravel the curse to defuse this war.] 】